2011 Cannes Film Festival (64th)

SPECS

• Country: France
• Festival Dates: Wed May 11, 2011 - Sun May 22, 2011
• Link: http://www.festival-cannes.com/en.html

FESTIVAL INFO

The Festival de Cannes has celebrated the cinema for more than 60 years. Over the years, the French Association of the International Film Festival has been able to evolve whilst retaining the essential: the passion for motion pictures, discovery of new talents, and enthusiasm of festival-goers and professionals from around the world, all contributing to the birth and distribution of films.

FESTIVAL FILM LISTING

• Main Competition:
  
• “The Artist,” directed by Michel Hazanavicius
  
• “La Piel Que Habito” (The Skin that I Live In), directed by Pedro Almodovar
  
• “L’Apollonide,” directed by Bertrand Bonello
  
• “Drive,” directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
  
• “Footnote,” directed by Joseph Cedar
  
• “Ichimei” (Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai), directed by Takashi Miike
  
• “Le Havre,” directed by Aki Kaurismäki
  
• “Hanezu No Tsuki,” directed by Naomi Kawase
  
• “The Kid With The Bike,” directed by Dardenne Brothers
  
• “Melancholia,” directed by Lars Von Trier
  
• “Michael,” directed by Markus Schleinzer
  
• “Once Upon A Time in Anatolia,” directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
  
• “Parter,” directed by Alain Cavalier
  
• “Polisse,” directed by Maiwenn
  
• “Sleeping Beauty,” directed by Julia Leigh
  
• “La source des femmes,” directed by Radu Mihaileanu
  
• “This Must Be The Place,” directed by Paolo Sorrentino
  
• “The Tree of Life,” directed by Terrence Malick
  
• “We Have a Pope,” directed by Nanni Moretti
  
• “We Need To Talk About Kevin,” directed by Lynne Ramsay
  
  
• Opening Film: Midnight in Paris - Woody Allen
  
• Closing Film: The Beloved - Christophe Honoré
  
  
• Out of Competition:
  
• “The Beaver,” directed by Jodie Foster
  
• “La conquête,” directed by Xavier Durringer
  
• “Kung Fu Panda 2,” directed by Jennifer Yuh
  
• “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” directed by Rob Marshall
  
  
• Midnight Screenings:
  
• “Wu Xia,” directed by Chan Peter Ho-Sun
  
• “Dias de Gracia,” directed by Everado Gout
  
  
• Special Screenings:
  
• “Labrador,” directed by Frederikke Aspöck
  
• “Le maître des forges de l’enfer,” directed by Rithy Panh
  
• “Michel Petrucciani,” directed by Michael Radford
  
• “Tous au Larzac,” directed by Christian Rouaud
  
• Bollywood - The Greatest Love Story Ever Told - Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
 & 
Jeff Zimbalist
  
• Plus jamais peur - Mourad Ben Cheikh
  
• The Big Fix - Josh Tickell
  
  
• School Screenings for secondary pupils:
  
• Les Hommes libres by Ismäel Ferrouki
  
• Prodigies by Antoine Charreyron
  
  
• Short Film Competition
  
• Ma Dahci/Ghost/South Korea
  
• Wannes Destoop/Badpakje 46/Belgium
  
• Vladimir Durán/Soy Tan Feliz/Argentina
  
• Nash Edgerton/Bear/Australia
  
• Lisa Marie Gamlem/KjØttsår/Norway
  
• Sam Holst/Meathead/New Zealand
  
• Nicolas Roy/Ce N’est Rien/Canada
  
• Megumi Tazaki/Paternal Womb/Japan
  
• Maryna Vroda/Cross/France
  
  
• Un Certain Regard:
  
• “Bonsaï,” directed by Christian Jimenez
  
• “The Day He Arrives,” directed by Hong Sang-Soo
  
• “Et maintenant, on va où ?,” directed by Nadine Labaki
  
• “Halt auf freier Strecke,” directed Andreas Dresen
  
• “Hors Satan,” directed by Bruno Dumont
  
• “The Hunter,” Bakur Bakuradze
  
• “Martha Marcy May Marlene,” directed by Sean Durkin
  
• “Les neiges du Kilimandjaro,” directed by Robert Guédiguian
  
• “Restless,” directed by Gus Van Sant
  
• “Skoonheid,” directed by Oliver Hermanus
  
• “Tatsumi,” directed by Eric Khoo
  
• “Arirang,” directed by Kim Ki-Duk
  
• “Toomelah,” directed by Ivan Sen
  
• “Oslo, August 31st,” directed by Joachim Trier
  
• “L’Exercice de L’Etat,” directed by Pierre Schoeller
  
• “Trabalhar Cansa,” directed by Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra
  
• “Miss Bala,” directed by Gerardo Naranjo
  
• “Loverboy,” directed by Catalin Mitulescu
  
• “Yellow Sea,” directed by Na Hong-jin
  
• "Elena," directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev (Closing Film)
  
  
• Directors' Fortnight:
  
• Après le sud - Jean-Jacques Jauffret
  
• Breathing - Karl Markovics
  
• Blue Bird - Gust Van den Berghe
  
• Palawan Destin - Auraeus Solito
  
• Chatrak - Vimukthi Jayasundara
  
• Code Blue - Urszula Antoniak
  
• Corpo celeste - Alice Rohrwacher
  
• Eldfjall - Rúnar Rúnarsson
  
• En Ville - Bertrand Schefer & Valérie Mréjen
  
• Impardonnables - André Téchiné
  
• Jeanne captive - Philippe Ramos
  
• La Fée - Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, & Bruno Romy
  
• La Fin du silence - Roland Edzard
  
• Les Géants - Bouli Lanners
  
• O Abismo prateado La Falaise argentée - Karim Aïnouz
  
• Play - Ruben Östlund
  
• Porfirio - Alejandro Landes
  
• Return - Liza Johnson
  
• Sur la planche - Leïla Kilani
  
• The Island - Kamen Kalev
  
• The Other Side Of Sleep - Rebecca Daly
  
  
• Directors' Fortnight: Special Screenings
  
• Des Jeunes Gens Mödernes - Jérôme de Missolz
  
• El Velador Le Veilleur de nuit - Natalia Almada
  
• Koi no Tsumi - Sion Sono
  
• La Nuit elles dansent - Isabelle Lavigne, Stéphane Thibault
  
  
• Directors' Fortnight: Short Films
  
• Armand 15 ans l'été - Blaise Harrison
  
• Bielutin - Dans le jardin du temps - Clément Cogitore
  
• Boro In The Box - Bertrand Mandico
  
• Cigarette at Night - Duane Hopkins
  
• Csicska - Attila Till
  
• Demain, ça sera bien - Pauline Gay
  
• Fourplay : Tampa - Kyle Henry
  
• Killing the Chickens to Scare the Monkeys - Jens Assur
  
• La Conduite de la Raison - Aliocha
  
• Las Palmas- Johannes Nyholm
  
• Le Songe de Poliphile - Camille Henrot
  
• Mila Caos - Simon Paetau
  
• Nuvem - Basil da Cunha
  
• Vice Versa One - Shahrbanoo Sadat
  
  
• Critics' Week:
  
• Las Acacias - Pablo Giorgelli
  
• Ave - Konstantin Bojanov
  
• 17 Filles - Delphine & Muriel Coulin
  
• The Slut - Hagar Ben Asher
  
• Snowtown - Justin Kurzel
  
• Sauna on Moon - Zou Peng
  
• Take Shelter - Jeff Nichols
  
  
• Critics' Week: Short Films
  
• Alexis Ivanovitch vous êtes mon héros - Guillaume Gouix
  
• Black Moon - Amie Siegel
  
• Blue - Stephan Kang
  
• Boy - Topaz Adizes
  
• Bul-Myul-Ui-Sa-Na-Ie - Moon Byoung-gon
  
• Dimanches - Valérie Rosier
  
• In Front of the House - Lee Tae-ho
  
• La inviolabilidad del domicilio se basa en el hombre que aparece empunando un hacha (Alex Piperno
  
• Junior - Julia Ducournau
  
• Permanencias - Ricardo Alves Jr.
  
  
• Critics' Week: Special Screenings
  
• La Guerre est déclarée (Valérie Donzelli, FR) Opening Film
  
• Pourquoi tu pleures? Katia Lewcowicz - Closing Film
  
• Walk Away Renée - Jonathan Caouette
  
• My Little Princess - Eva Ionesco